“During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'” SaidImportantNationsPresidentHigherSkillsMajorsSellsAddressesPresident ObamaHigher EducationStarbucksEnglish Major Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.” LastsMajorsSellsHolidayTradingStock Price Author:Nancy Dunnan
“You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].” MillionsRecordsMajorsPaidSellsLabels Author:Betty Wright
“The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.” FateMajorsSellsCriticalReviewsPublishersHandfulSuccessorsBookshops Author:John Scott
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.” PeopleWayWellsBookFactsWinningDealsAttentionGayMajorsRemainsSellsRemarkableExceptionAwardsMainstreamOccasionalSexuallyGay PeopleExplicit Author:Garth Greenwell
“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.” PeopleWorldTryingFirstsHelpingVisionBabyGeniusTasteMajorsSellsPerseveranceObviousChanging The WorldFoundersMultipleHelping PeopleEbayPaypal Author:Eric Ries
“We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.” WantWritingLyingLinesMajorsPaidSellsSellingWant MeBullshitYou Want Me Book:Look at Me: A Novel Source: Look at Me: A Novel